Monday 16 June 2014

June Crafternoon - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!

This month was an extra special crafternoon as it was our 1st Birthday! I think everyone will join me in thanking Linda D who decided she needed to start a therapy group for her craft addiction. What would we have done without her?!

Another thank you (yes this is like the BAFTAs) has to go to Lori, Kirsty and Dawn for the organsiation of the group.Without them the group would not be what it is today! And also not forgetting Sharon, although she may not be on the organising committee any more she did a fabulous job when she was.

To celebrate our birthday we had a raffle. Another thank you to everyone who donated prizes.We had enough in the end to make sure everyone had a little birthday present!

And the last thank you for this post goes to Linda D, Denise, Robina, Fiona, Linda W, Linda McK, Kim and Kirsty for supplying demos.



Raffle


We had lots of lovely prizes for the raffle from handmade cards and jewellery to dies, stamps and craft supplies.
















Photo Smash Book 

Linda D was making a photo album with some gorgeous papers. Linda has kindly supplied instructions.












Jewellery


Robina's group were making some gorgeous pieces of  jewellery. There were some gorgeous colour combinations and the end results were very professional!




Butterfly Framed Picture


Denise and her fabulous group were producing gorgeous butterfly framed pictures. Fantastic results!









Marbling






Fiona was showing her lovely ladies how to produce marbled effects. Each design was unique. Lovely work!





Thinking of You Card

Linda W and her group made some beautiful "Thinking of You" cards. I love the ones with the ribbon weaved in to the card.  Absolutely gorgeous, ladies!





Beaded bracelet

Linda McK was teaching her ladies how to make an intricate beaded bracelet and earrings. Once again some stunning colour combinations were chosen to produce some fabulous shiny pieces.










Bottlecap Fridge Magnets and Pendants

Kim and her altered art queens were making beautiful altered bottle caps. From something plain in to beautiful works of art that can be hung on the fridge or worn proudly around you neck. Kim has kindly supplied instructions for her demo that can be found here.







Perfect Pearls Card

Last but definitely not least is Kirsty's Perfect pearls card. It was lovely to see how the different colour combinations produced such different results. Beautiful cards!







The ATC Swap for this month can be found here.

As always thank you for taking time to read our blog. Please leave a comment, it's nice to see who has dropped by.

Katie
On behalf of Craftaholics Anonymous, Glasgow

Tuesday 3 June 2014

April Crafternoon aka ALL OF THE GLITTER

Well this month seemed to be all about the glitter. I suspect people are still finding it in their hair, on clothes and in their homes. But as crafters we expect this!

A big thank you to Denise, Kirsty, Sharon, Kim, Robina, Jan, Dawn and Lori for providing some fabulous demonstrations.

April's ATC swap was along the theme of Fantasy and can be found here.



Pan Pastels Card





First of all we had Kirsty's group making a beautiful card using Pan Pastels over heat embossed stamped images.



Glitter Glasses






Denise's group were using glitter and Decopatch Glue to decorate wine glasses.

Shiny!

































Glitter Paste Card


Sharon's demo involved experimenting with glitter
paste and stencils to make a gorgeous card. A spatula is used to apply the glitter paste to the stencil producing some beautiful designs.














Altered Coasters


Kim and her ladies were using gorgeous papers, Mod Podge and inks to decorate coasters. Gorgeous!






Promarker Tutorial

Robina was showing her lovely group how to use Promarkers. The shading of these pictures is fantastic.







Absolutely stunning!